Just once I'd love a media discussion on this topic.

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25. What burns my bacon: Democratic president and small majority in Congress for two years

(Clinton, Obama, Biden) and don't solve all the country's problems. As if they could have and just didn't want to. Blaming Democrats, saying both sides are the same or Democrats are worse or whatever. If after years and years and years of having the White House and huge majorities in Congress, FINE, say that. If not: You are stupid.

I read a segment from a recently released book about capitalism or something that blamed Obama for not magically solving everything, that "Democrats were in charge" and didn't fix everything. Which is exactly what Republicans always say:

"During the 2012 campaign, Republicans and their lackeys in the media liked to claim that Obama 'owned the Congress for two years. They did everything he wanted.' That was Mitch McConnell. Chris Wallace of Fox News put it this way: 'The first two years, he had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.' I think they kept using this talking point specifically to drive me insane. The truth is that we held a filibuster-proof majority from September 24, 2009 (when Paul Kirk was sworn in), until February 4, 2010 (when Scott Brown was sworn in) -- all of four months and ten days." -- Al Franken